The New York Times lists horrific forms of torture in Syrian prisons

Syrian law student Mohammed Ghabash and other detainees in the Mezze prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus were subjected to suspension from the wrist, completely naked, and spraying with cold water during the cold nights, including torture in Syrian prisons, including electrocution, beatings on the genitals, rape and confinement in crowded cells with garbage and waste Humanity.

The New York Times reported in a lengthy report it said it prepared from documents it collected over seven years and interviews with dozens of survivors and relatives of detainees and missing persons during the period.

The newspaper described the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against thousands of detainees in prisons as part of the regime's campaign to suppress and silence the opposition.

She spoke of government correspondence documenting arrests, torture and deaths in prisons, smuggled out of Syria and obtained by investigators of the International Justice and Accountability Commission.

By superior orders
The documents show that senior security officials were aware of abuses committed in prisons, including the repression of civilians and harsh treatment of specific detainees.

She quoted Ghabash and other survivors as saying that an officer calling himself Hitler was forcing the detainees to entertain his fellow officers during their supper, to play the roles of dogs, donkeys and cats, and who failed to be beaten, and reported that he saw in a military hospital nurse hit the face of one Who begged him to give him painkillers. In another prison, he counted 19 of his colleagues who died of illness, torture and neglect in one month.

One survivor, Ms. Khalif, said she saw the jailers juggling hungry prisoners to the toilet and mouthing their faeces, a method confirmed by other survivors.

Ghabash also said that a prison officer once put a gun in his mouth and told him that the woman who heard her scream outside was his mother.

They burned his body

Another survivor said he saw a teenager under torture for 21 days, and eventually investigators poured fuel into his body and set him on fire.

According to the report, one of the documents included a valuable complaint to the prisons of the accumulation of bodies in prisons and the erosion with the increase in the number of deaths.

Ghabash described the investigation procedures and the questions being given to the detainees as surreal. The detainee is forced to confess to a large crime that he did not commit, and to imagine the details of those who fail to imagine.

Some survivors remember riding for hours, while being transported from one prison to another, in trucks usually used for animal bodies, handcuffed and tied with meat hooks.

Bad and dirty food
Former prisoners said many cells lack toilets and that the prisoner gets seconds a day to use the toilet with rampant diarrhea and urinary tract infections. Most of the meals are a few dirty, dirty meals, some prisoners die from sheer mental breakdown, To block most medications, leaving untreated infections.

Another survivor named Vaker, 39, and Ghabash, also testified that they had witnessed a prisoner calling himself Ezra, who had taken a prisoner from inside the cell and had beaten him behind a glass door. They had heard the prisoner cry for a while Of time and then the choking silence. In the morning, the corpse was found in the hallway to the bathroom with many of the accumulated bodies where they and other detainees were walking over when they went to the toilet.

The report quoted documents of the UN Human Rights Commission last year that arrested women and girls were raped and sexually assaulted in at least 20 branches of the intelligence services, as well as men and boys.

Accelerated executions
Recently, current detainees have delivered warnings from inside that hundreds of people are being transferred to the execution site of Sednaya prison, and recently released prisoners have reported that executions there are accelerating.

Although the Syrian government has denied systematic abuse, the newly discovered government notes show that Syrian officials who report directly to Bashar al-Assad have received mass detention orders and are aware of atrocities in prisons, the New York Times says.

The documents also showed that officials of Bashar al-Assad's regime - including the former head of military intelligence, Rafiq Shehadeh - were keen to protect those involved in torture from future prosecution and issued orders to officers to do everything necessary to ensure judicial immunity for security officials.

To install the lion system
The success of the Assad regime in the face of its adversaries was a central cause of the systematic system of arbitrary arrests and torture prisons. The regime launched a merciless war on civilians, throwing hundreds of thousands into extremely filthy bastions to be tortured and killed.

With more than 6,000 new cases of arbitrary arrest recorded last year, a quarter more than a year earlier, the report said more than 128,000 Syrians had entered and never left those prisons and were believed to have either been killed or were still in captivity.

Nearly 14,000 people were killed under torture in harsh conditions described by UN investigations as genocide.